Curbing the spread of nuclear weaponsWith the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It considers nuclear weapons from varying perspectives, including the technology perspective, which views them as spillovers from nuclear energy programmes; and the theoretical perspective, which looks at the collision between national and international security – the security dilemma – involved in nuclear proliferation. It aims to demonstrate that international security is unlikely to benefit from encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons except in situations where the security complex is already largely nuclearised. |
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... amount of fissile material involved. Prototype fast breeders have been developed in France and Japan. Where thorium is used as the fertile material, the story is similar. Thorium, though less widely found in natural deposits than ...
... amount needed depends on the design of the weapon. Crude designs which demand a minimum of specialist knowledge from the designer and a minimum of engineering ingenuity perhaps require 50 kg. Sophisticated designs probably 1 make do ...
... common substance, beryllium; in a bomb this is achieved by removing a screen between the two. In the first plutonium bomb, the trigger was a small amount of polonium and beryllium separated by a thin barrier that would.
... amount of fissile material actually present. Since nuclear reactors produce heat and drawing this heat off through the use of coolants for power production is how electricity is produced, the coolants too have to pass the 'neutron ...
... amounts of isotopes of plutonium other than 239. Whereas a Magnox reactor run normally for power production might produce plutonium that is between 70 and 80 per cent isotope 239, a pressurised water reactor (PWR), the most commercially ...
Contents
The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguards | |
Understanding nuclearfree zones | |
United States policy on nonproliferation and the Nuclear Non | |
Bargaining for test ban treaties | |
A The Baruch Plan | |
B Atoms for Peace | |
Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts | |
E Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean | |